trio VD: Maze – review

Naim EdgeThis successor to caustic Leeds improv group trio VD's 2009 album Fill It Up with Ghosts retains their frantic hit-and-run staccato structures, farmyard squealings, howling distortion, and pithily short track-lengths. But, deploying a lot more hardware, they've made the textures thicker, the extremes scarier, and the soundscape more diverse. The opening Brick features battering arrhythmic drumming and chicken-clucking sax, but ends on a cinematically soaring theme. Crying-baby sounds an...

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